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Published on: 5/6/2005
Last Visited: 5/6/2005
THE Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and Caribbean Exports Board Member for Barbados, Samuel Chandler, has made a stirring call for CARICOM nationals to exploit every available opportunity in the area of services given the importance of the sector to regional economies and the enabling environment governments are creating through the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).
In an address at the opening of the recent Barbados workshop on Investment Opportunities in New Services, coordinated by Caribbean Export on behalf of the CARICOM Secretariat, Chandlertraced the origins of the CSME and outlined its major principles: Free movement of goods and services; Free movement of capital; Free movement of persons; Freedom to provide services; and The Right to establish a commercial presence anywhere in the Community.
He noted the important distinction between the movement of persons and the right to establish a commercial presence and highlighted the five initial categories for the free movement of persons namely: university graduates, media workers, sportspersons, artistes, and musicians.